Reclaim Your Self-Worth

A note to young leaders.

A young, devoted husband lost his wife in a car accident.

When he fell in love again some months after his wife’s death, he was horrified, but not surprised, to see her ghost walk into the house one night and accuse him bitterly of infidelity.

This went on night after night until he couldn’t take it any longer, and went to consult a Zen master.

“What makes you so sure it’s a ghost?”, asked the Zen master.

“The fact that she knows and can describe to me every single thing I’ve said and done and thought and felt.”

The Zen master gave the man a bag of soybeans and said: “Make sure you do not open it, and when she appears to you tonight, ask her how many beans there are in the bag.”

When the man put that question to the ghost, it fled, never to return.

—

It’s strange, is it not, that our demons know only what we know?

You can never attain success and happiness, if you believe yourself unworthy.